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Can You Trust Your Supermarket? What You Need to Know | Dr. Oz | S6 | Ep 25 | Full Episode
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Today on Dr. Oz, can you trust your supermarket?
Even savvy shoppers get fooled.
See the slick tricks they use to get you to spend more and eat more.
Dr. Oz shows you how to save money and your health the next time you go shopping.
Plus, gaining and losing the same weight over and over?
Secrets to overcome the obstacles of yo-yo dieting.
Coming up next on Dr. Oz...
Now, I have no doubt that you are all pros at navigating your supermarket aisles.
But even the most seasoned shoppers may be surprised to discover the secrets your supermarket is hiding.
Today we're revealing how those secrets could put your health at risk, empty your wallet, and change the way you trust your supermarket forever.
This package of refrigerated fettuccine...
Meet Phil Lempert.
He's the supermarket guru who has been predicting the future for more than 25 years.
Grocery stores create community cooking centers.
As one of America's leading consumer trend watchers, Lempert analyzes food trends to help shoppers maximize their purchasing power.
His monthly product reviews empower consumers to understand their food and make smarter choices.
Lempert's supermarketguru.com gets 9 million visitors each year, making it one of the leading food resources on the internet.
Phil Leppard is here, and after his 30 years in the food industry, he's not afraid to blow the whistle on what they don't want you to know.
So how common is it for supermarkets to employ techniques that get us to spend more than we want?
Well, remember one thing.
What the supermarket wants you to do is have a great shopping experience.
Have fun.
Because if you do, guess what?
You're going to be in the store longer.
You're going to spend more time and more money.
Okay, here's the deal.
Phil is going to walk us through the four biggest reasons you cannot trust your supermarkets.
And it all starts with a staple we all have in our homes.
Let's walk over here.
Okay.
I'm talking about milk.
I love milk.
My grandfather is actually a dairy farmer.
So when it comes to milk, I am passionate and I never want anybody to get fooled.
You want to look at those expiration dates.
You want to feel for the coldest milk always.
But also there's some other things you need to know.
What is the biggest issue when it comes to milk?
Why is it that we're tripped up on such an obvious staple?
Price.
We believe that milk is always going to be the least expensive in the supermarket.
Well, in fact, drug chains are less expensive as are convenience stores.
So when I go shopping from anywhere where I buy it, it's probably about four bucks a gallon.
What would it cost if I went to a drug store?
It'll depend what part of the country you're in, but between 30 and 60 percent less if you go into a drug chain.
I've never noticed that before.
I've never been paying attention to it.
Yeah, you need to get out there.
You and I need to go shopping together.
We'll keep doing that.
But you're going to have to bring your shopping list when we do that.
Let's talk about that because Pena's here to help us understand the shopping list issue.
Welcome to the show.
You go shopping a lot?
I do.
I have two children and a husband who has an appetite, so I'm usually at the store at least once a week.
And roughly how much do you spend when you go shopping?
About $100, $125.
Probably pretty average for most shoppers.
So I made you a little supermarket shelf here, a potential shelf.
I made this up obviously, but this is what I want you to work with.
I want you to place A dollar sign next to the items whose price you know.
And I want you to really know them.
Be comfortable.
You don't have to pick any if you don't want.
But if you're pretty comfortable with milk, you sort of know because we just told you it's about four bucks a gallon.
So go ahead and put a dollar sign there.
Okay.
But give me some other things you might know the price to.
And you're representing everybody here.
Well, my daughter loves bananas, so I'm always at the store for bananas, so I definitely know the price of that.
Okay.
Go ahead.
And my husband loves eggs, and I have to keep him happy, so...
That's very loyal of you.
Definitely.
Very noble of you.
Know the price of that.
Give me one more.
Just throw it up.
And I love bread, so I definitely have to keep the mom happy, so definitely know the price of that.
All right, so what concerns you about the exercise we just did with Pina?
Well, number one, remember that our brains are limited to what we can really remember.
So what I always recommend is you have to have that shopping list.
So my ultimate shopping list that we created is you take your cash register receipt.
It lists now every item and the price you paid.
Bring that.
First, go to your cupboards, go to your freezer, go to your refrigerator, cross off the items you don't want, because one of the biggest ways to waste money is to buy what's already in the cupboard.
So, number one, you know what to get, but also you know what the price was last time.
So let's say this week the price is higher, you might want to wait a week till the price comes down, or have a coupon.
Here, take these to your husband.
It's a gift from the show.
Thank you.
He'll be so happy.
The next reason, this one absolutely stunned me, that you cannot trust the supermarket, is found at the front of the store.
It's in the fruit and vegetable aisle.
And can I just say one thing?
I don't want anyone stepping up here.
This is an absolutely fundamental part of the shopping experience, the produce department.
So what do you need to look out for to avoid being tricked here?
Well, I don't hate anything about the supermarket.
That's why they call me the supermarket guru.
But what I do hate are those misters and the thunder when I go into a produce department.
I hate it because, number one, keep in mind that when produce is actually being misted, it absorbs water.
That means that the produce can rot faster.
It's not going to last as long.
Now, I want to play a little test with you.
Okay.
And I want you to see just how much extra you could be paying when it comes for misting produce.
Just take the spinach and dunk it really quick.
Really quick.
Well, let me weigh it first.
Okay, weigh it first.
So, is this on?
Yep.
All right.
So we have a regular old scale.
This is, I think it's dry.
There's a little bit of wet moisture.
Not too bad.
All right.
It's the way you would find it in a store.
I put it there.
It's nine, roughly.
Okay.
9.06.
Okay.
So what do you want me to do?
Real quick.
Real quick.
Yep.
Nope.
And now shake it off.
Shake it vigorously.
Okay.
Now let's put it back on the scale.
I lost some of the leaves here.
That's okay.
Those aren't going to make a difference, trust me.
And their scale is still on.
Oh my goodness.
And now it's 10.7.
Almost two ounces more.
Exactly.
And you're paying for that.
That's number one.
This is 20% more than it was before.
Yep.
That's why the misters are something to avoid, number one.
Now, if your store has a mister, here's the tip you want to remember.
Get the spinach that's on the bottom, because the spinach that's on the top will have gotten more of the water on it.
Or at least dab it off like this.
Or dab it off.
And again, definitely when you go home, when you go before to weigh it, make sure you shake it off again to get all that excess water out.
Come on over here.
The last reason we're going to talk about, and this is an issue that we are focused on here, it's lighting.
Look around you, the lights everywhere.
Well, they have lighting in stores.
And this is a big problem for me because I actually don't understand why they light it the way they do.
You say there's a real science to this.
Oh, there is.
It's the color temperature of light.
So if you go into a produce department, you'll see beautiful produce like this.
Now, keep in mind, because of the color temperature of the lights, they can be adjusted from different parts of the store.
Now, look at what it looks like with a white light on it.
Oh, my.
Very different.
Yeah, it looks pale.
It looks paler, and it's less appetizing to us.
So always look up when you're in the store to see what kind of lighting.
And if you think that something might be going on, just take a white piece of paper, hold it under the light, and you'll see the difference between here and here.
And you'll see if, in fact, that piece of paper is white, a little yellow, a little green.
My hand looks tasty in there, doesn't it?
It does.
Full of nutrients.
This is something I saw just before the show.
This is unbelievable.
This is an example that we set up using red light.
So that was green light over there with the produce.
This is meat.
And if you don't mind, let's just show me what this is on.
Yeah, it is.
Yep.
Okay.
So you look at this under the...
Guys, look carefully at this.
You see how you have two beautiful slimes of meat there?
So we have these two are together, and then that's together.
Now show us what happens if the red light's not on there.
Look at the difference.
This one is much more brown.
That is much more red.
And they looked identical when it had that red light on it.
And again, it doesn't have to be red.
It could just be a different color temperature of that lighting.
I gotta say, this is not just manipulative.
I'm actually concerned about the health implications.
I mean, I just got convinced, right in front of me I'm looking at this, that both of these look about the same age.
There's clearly a difference.
There is.
And when it comes to food safety, especially with meat, you want to be real careful, as you've talked about many times.
You want to make sure you cook it to the right temperature.
But also, when you're choosing it, a lot of those tray packs have what's called the bladder underneath the meat to really absorb excess fluid.
If you see it, push it down.
See if there's blood or juice that comes out of it.
And never, ever buy that meat that's at the bottom.
Because keep in mind, there's three or four pounds of meat on top.
It's not getting air.
It's not getting the proper temperature.
And it's going to go bad faster.
So unlike other things, you buy meat on the top.
Meat on the top.
I love it.
Thanks.
Remember, from now on, everybody, when you walk into a store, look up, not down when you're buying your food.
Thanks, Phil.
I'll be right back.
Coming up, going deaf and blind doesn't mean you have to give up.
The truly inspirational story of a woman's survival with the rare and debilitating syndrome.
Her optimistic view of life will change yours forever.
Coming up next.
All new Oz.
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Dr. Andrew Weil shows you the new no-pill solutions.
All new Dr. Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow.
Spend a few minutes with my next guest, Rebecca Alexander, and you'll come away with a lesson on how to live life to the fullest.
Rebecca's facing a rare medical condition that's slowly taken away her hearing and her sight.
Take a look at her courageous story, profiled by her own brother, NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander.
Don't stop, Rebecca.
Let's go.
This is my sister Rebecca.
She's 35 and the most impressive person I know.
Faster!
Looking at her, you'd have no idea she has a disability.
Can you see my hands right here?
Yeah.
Can you see my hands right here?
No.
When she was only 13, Rebecca was diagnosed with a rare and devastating genetic disorder called Usher syndrome type 3. It finally hit you in college.
I'm gonna lose my vision and my hearing.
Go blind and deaf.
What does learning that feel like?
I felt like as soon as I got that diagnosis, well, I need to do everything I can to make up for my loss.
It was like my way of fighting back.
Rebecca is fearless, a tornado of energy.
She's now an extreme athlete, leaving the rest of us in her dust.
Rebecca tells her extraordinary story in a new memoir called Not Fade Away.
With her hearing almost gone, last year Rebecca received a cochlear implant, a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound.
Your outfit is so much cuter than mine.
Only Rebecca passes the time before major surgery like this.
I came to see her a day earlier.
As I come to terms with this, even as a brother, this is the last time I'll ever look at you without a device on you.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Which for me is hard too.
Yeah.
Does that worry you and the way people will view you?
I'm sorry, I'm crying.
I love you so much.
No, it's okay.
I think that when you're the person going through this, it's nice to know that the people around you do care and they do think about this stuff and that they do have an emotional response to it.
A year and a half later, Rebecca hears much better, but her vision is almost gone.
Still, my sister remains upbeat and undeterred.
It's incredible how in the last, you know, 15 years how much my life has changed and it's actually better.
I mean, it's funny that I could have a lot less vision and a lot less hearing and be a lot happier.
Rebecca and Peter Alexander are here.
Rebecca, you are positively infectious.
It's just wonderful.
You're smiling.
Your energy is upbeat.
How do you do that?
How do you stay so engaged with a positive attitude when you're losing your sight and you're losing your hearing and you know there's not much you can do to stop it?
Well, you know, I think one of the most important things about being happy is to allow yourself to be sad, to allow yourself to feel your emotions when they come, because losing your vision and your hearing is a very overwhelming and terribly saddening thing at times.
And so, when I have those emotions, I allow myself to feel them, I allow myself to go through them, and then I move on.
And it really allows me to live my life in the moment.
Can I brag on your brother a bit?
He was bragging on you.
He's a news correspondent.
He's been all over the place covering war stories, some really tough stuff, natural disasters.
I mean, you're a tough guy.
That's how you know him.
But I saw you tearing up in that piece.
What's it like to watch your sister go through this?
You have to understand that this started when we were just kids.
And then, of course, when I left off to college and then became a professional and she went to college, when I would come home and I would see it, it started to become more clear that she was having trouble seeing me.
Her eyes were darting around trying to find me.
She wouldn't hear things, I would say.
And this is as cruel as it gets as experiences can go as a big brother.
But this is our life.
So we live this.
We don't waste any time.
I'm on her left side, which was her better ear for as long as I could.
One time, I was her wingman as often as I can be.
We were at sort of a blind date.
I know this isn't the kind of thing that a little sister wants, right?
Their brother taking them on a date.
But we're at a party.
So I see the guy coming.
And Becky didn't see him, of course.
So I go, he's on your right in three, two, and one.
Hey!
Grab your hand.
I'd go for that.
I'd fall for that all the time.
It works.
It works.
It works well.
So the book's called Not Fade Away.
Peter mentioned it briefly.
It's a roadmap to help all of us who are facing problems to generate the courage to overcome any obstacle.
There's one part of this, if it's okay, I'm going to read to you.
It really hit me.
I love to watch people's faces.
Now think about that.
When was the last time you looked in the faces of people that you loved dearly?
I love to watch people's faces.
Someday I won't see anyone's face.
So I look and I look, burning the images of the people I love into my brain before they are, for me, frozen forever in time.
It's really remarkable.
You're losing your sight, but maybe for the first time actually having true sight, true vision of what this is all about.
How do we learn this?
Well, you know, it's interesting because when we have sight, I mean, there are so many of us take what we have for granted.
And I used to, of course, take what I had for granted because I knew no other way.
I never knew what it was like to have limited vision or limited hearing.
And so when I started to progressively lose those senses, I was repeatedly reminded of how grateful I am, how humbling it is to have what I have left.
And it's been a tremendous lesson, I think, in gratitude, really, to be able to have what I have now when I was told that I would be totally blind by the time I was 30 and I'm 35. It's really pretty remarkable.
So, I read the book last weekend, and I actually did this.
I looked in the, you know, after the kids, and I looked at their faces, and I studied them, and I hadn't actually done that in a long time.
I really think we ought to do that.
Just do one thing today, after the show, you know, just look in the face of someone that you care about, and remember what they are, because they won't always be that way, you won't be that way, and so the ability to have that reminded to us by you is a real tribute.
Now, if it's okay, I want to show everybody what you're seeing right now, Rebecca.
I want to demonstrate to all of you what Usher syndrome is so you understand the challenges.
So let's look at this crowded street in this image behind me.
Now, that's how we all see it.
But for Rebecca, she started off seeing something looking like this, like she's looking through a straw.
You all see that change?
Now, as the cells in Rebecca's eyes continue to die, the holes in that vision become smaller and smaller and smaller until it finally, oof, closes up.
And that's, of course, the people who thought it would have happened to you already.
You managed to delay it.
And when you were first diagnosed, Rebecca, you had, I think, probably appropriately, a fear of losing your sight.
I would be fearful of that.
But you say in the book that you're not really scared about losing your sight or your hearing anymore.
Yeah, I think part of this process is knowing that when I was first diagnosed and I thought about being as visually impaired and as hearing impaired as I am now, I thought to myself at the time, God, I'd rather die than be blind and deaf.
And now I have far less vision and far less hearing and I'm far happier than I ever was at the time because I really live presently in the moment.
I don't think that far ahead.
I don't think about the day that I'm going to be completely blind.
But I do know that when I get there that I'll be okay because I'll be in the moment every step until that point and I'll be prepared.
Well, I want you to keep looking in the mirror, because you'll see a very beautiful person.
That's what we saw today.
Thank you.
Thanks for being here.
Rebecca's wonderful new book, Not Fading Away.
It's available now.
If you don't see Pete's great reporting on NBC News, we'll be right back.
Coming up, want to keep you and your family healthy this flu season?
Actor James Van Der Beek and his wife Kimberly share their secrets on good health and family nutrition.
Easy, immunity-boosting food tips to keep your family from getting sick.
next.
Cold and flu season is right around the corner.
For today, I'm going to give you some immunity-boosting food tips to keep your family from getting sick.
Now, it's something one of America's favorite TV stars, James Van Der Beek, and his wife Kimberly, a natural lifestyle blogger, take very seriously.
Take a look.
From Dawson's Creek to doting dad, James Van Der Beek is now embracing what might be his most heartfelt role to date.
But with three kids under the age of four, life is not always Hollywood glam for James and his wife Kimberly.
One of their biggest challenges, finding more nutritious meals for their children.
So Kimberly put her knowledge of natural lifestyles to work, seeking out the best vitamin-packed, immunity-boosting foods to keep in the Vanderbeek kitchen.
She posts her top tips and recipes on her blog.
And today, Kimberly and James will share some of their favorites, their superfood secrets that keep their family healthy, and will keep yours healthy, too.
Jamie Kimberley Van Der Beek, come on out and join us.
- You look wonderful.
- Thank you.
- I can't tell you.
- You're pretty good.
- You have three kids under age four.
How are you even awake?
Come on.
I'm not entirely sure that we are.
I thought I was dreaming.
So James, before you got married to your beautiful bride, was health on your radar screen?
No.
No, I was eating anything I wanted to.
And I looked at food as more of something to indulge in for the immediate gratification of just eating it.
I thought I was eating healthy, apparently.
You needed some training.
I needed some help.
We upgraded the pantry.
For sure.
But what she kind of taught me was that the health benefits of food are something that can help you enjoy it on a whole other level.
Sure it could.
Kimmy, what's the biggest challenge of keeping your family healthy?
When James goes shopping.
Of course.
He's a dessert man.
Spoken like a mother.
That's not true.
She's lying.
No, birthday parties when they all have pizza and ice cream.
And, you know, I'm into letting the kids indulge occasionally on that sort of thing, but getting them right back on track at home.
Come on, cupcakes?
My son's really good at screaming for ice cream.
So I ask you to join me because I want to really find out in a practical world what really works.
So we're going to get some of these immunity boosting food tips from you if you want to share them with us.
Okay.
Come on over.
The first one I understand is you have a surefire little trick.
I'm stealing your wife James.
Follow behind please.
A surefire way to get the kids eating their salads and other healthy foods.
What is that?
Yeah, bring them in the kitchen, have you help them make it.
My son's an expert stirrer of vegetables and pouring lemon juice, and Olivia's great with olive oil.
But they like to test it and try it while they're making it.
Who helps more, James or the kids?
The kids.
I thought so.
Well, except for Sunday morning pancakes.
That's true.
Let's go through these.
First immunity boosting tip actually is to add red to your salad three times a week.
Yes, add lots of red.
This is an Israeli salad.
There's tons of red in it.
We have radishes, tomatoes.
It's got lots of vitamin C, lots of antioxidants.
There's parsley in here, which has more vitamin C than oranges.
That's right.
Yeah.
James didn't know that, did he?
I'm learning a lot.
I'm learning a lot today.
In Turkey, they call this a shepherd salad.
I grew up eating this.
Yeah, this is amazing.
It's very common in that part of the world.
We met over salads like this in Israel, so it's fun.
Good for you.
And the egg frying tour, I'm understanding, is one of James' few talents in the kitchen.
Yes, I am great with recipes with exactly one ingredient.
Okay.
Let me see.
Fried eggs are good.
But what Kimberly taught me is I fry it in coconut oil.
Yeah, it just helps fight bacteria and viruses.
Coconut oil is amazing for a lot of things.
It's another immune booster people forget about what you cook in food and it works and it helps as an anti-microbial, as you say.
Okay, you have a visually appealing little trick that apparently works uniformly with the children, which I think a lot of us could benefit from.
Please describe it.
Well, this is a great carrot ginger turmeric soup and basically we're gonna take some Greek yogurt and you just make faces and make it fun.
Everything should be fun.
So we still have some eyeballs and let's see what kind of face we can get.
Make James for me.
All right.
Well, he has hair.
It's uncanny.
There's James.
It is really uncanny.
Do you have a mustache today?
Maybe a tiny bit of 5 o'clock shadow.
Now, smile next to the ball.
Smile.
Which one's James?
Which is the soup?
It's hard to tell.
All right.
I forgot the nose.
Yeah, sure.
And then you have a little trick that I think a lot of folks can benefit from.
Yes, for kids.
I mean, moms, we don't have that much time to cook.
So make extra, freeze it, pop these little things out, and you have your meal already made for the kids.
Again, that's another thing that I'm good at is melting the ice cubes.
One more immunity-boosting tip has to do with sneaking vitamin-rich foods into desserts, which I know.
Kids go for dessert.
It's all about marketing.
I found it with my own four children.
When you get to four, you have to truly play zone defense.
I'm sure you're already trying that.
But they'll eat stuff if you market it the right way.
So we market desserts and then we sneak stuff in.
So what do you do in your family?
Well, basically, this is easy, actually.
This is just frozen bananas, almond milk, and a little strawberry, which you don't need.
But the key is to make it all beautiful and let them be hands-on.
So we have cacao nibs, coconut flakes, goji berries and pistachios.
These are all super foods.
Amazing for you.
And they can decorate their own dessert.
Go for it, babe.
And it helps, all these immunity tools we're talking about do make a material impact, because your body's immune system desperately wants the fuel to make it work.
Now James, you're a paid spokesperson for the FluMist guys.
Yeah, FluMist is a flu vaccine that protects against four strains of the flu, and it's a mist.
No needles involved.
Is that what the kids get?
Yeah, we didn't do it last year.
And when Kimberly was nine months pregnant, we had two kids with the flu.
One gave it to the other one.
I mean, the flu puts 200,000 people a year in the hospital.
It puts more kids in the hospital than any other vaccine-preventable disease.
So talk to your doctor, figure out which vaccination it was for you.
Olivia was psyched about doing it.
It was so easy.
Go get the audience healthy over there.
I don't want them getting the flu.
All right.
These are puddings.
Exactly.
You and I are going to eat it.
You can find recipes for Timberwolves, immunity-boosting foods at DrRoz.com.
Look for James, a new series, CSI Cybers, coming soon to CBS.
Be right back.
Are you worried about what your family's eating?
And do you ever go organic?
We do when it's not too expensive.
I just make sure to follow your advice.
We all feel much healthier.
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Next, if milk does a body good, why are you feeling so much pain?
One day you can have dairy, the next day you can't.
You could be lactose intolerant.
Learn the tips to alleviate the symptoms.
You may be able to reverse your intolerance today.
Next.
All new Oz.
Natural remedies that work like meds, without the side effects.
Dr. Andrew Weil shows you the new no-pill solutions.
All new Dr. Oz.
That's coming up tomorrow. - It can inflict pain on millions of Americans You get bloating, you get gas, you get diarrhea.
Yet, you can find it in almost every household.
It's milk.
More specifically, lactose in the milk gets the sugar.
And today I'm going to show you how you may be able to reverse your lactose intolerance.
But before we get any further, I want my assistance of the day to come on down.
Let's pick, how about 107?
Who's a 107?
Very handsome, buddy.
Please.
I took my hand too?
Yes.
The assistant queen of the day.
The queen of the day.
What's your first name?
Tina.
Tina!
Where are you from, Tina?
From Long Island.
Long Island.
Are those friends of yours up there?
Yes.
They seem very happy for you.
Look at them.
They're so excited about you.
They're so excited.
So I'm going to ask you a bunch of questions, and if you don't tell me the truth, I'm going to ask them so they'll correct you if there's any issues.
I better tell you the truth.
Okay.
So we're talking today about things that we eat that sometimes throw us off.
So the foods that you love to eat, give me a couple examples of things that you adore.
That I adore?
Yeah.
Brussels sprouts.
Believe it or not.
You do?
Yes, I do.
I've never met anyone who likes Brussels sprouts that much before.
I like them, too.
So, things like Brussels sprouts can cause a little bit of gas sometimes, just because that's how the body digests them.
That's a good fiber.
But I'm talking today about dairies.
Oh, milkshakes.
Because dairy products, they're all...
Do you like milkshakes?
Mm.
Oh, you do?
No.
They don't like me, though.
No.
What happens if you have a milkshake?
Bloated, gassy.
All that stuff.
Yeah.
When was the last time you had one?
It's been a long time.
For that reason?
For that reason, yeah.
And is that true of all dairy products or only the hedonistic things like milkshakes?
No, I think it's one of those things if you have too much, it's going to happen.
How about when you were a kid?
Any issues then?
No, believe it or not.
I didn't have problems as well.
Isn't that interesting?
Yeah.
Wouldn't have had it as kids.
Is that true for how many of you noticed you were fine as kids and have more problems as you grow older?
Everybody, let me show you what happens.
This is what's supposed to happen anyway inside the body.
And then we'll talk about this thing about changes.
Because it's ironic that we start off in the right spot and then we sometimes alter.
So this is an example of your body.
And your body has intestines in it.
That's what these sponges are.
And on top of the intestines, you have enzymes called lactase enzymes.
But they're enzymes that are designed to break down the sugar in milk called lactose.
But you need to have those enzymes because you're drinking milk when you're a kid and for your mom and the like.
So go ahead and take your milk carton and pour it over normally functioning intestine.
And notice what happens.
The enzymes digest all the milk.
The sponge absorbs the milk.
The intestines absorb the milk.
And they use it to nourish the body.
You get all kinds of nutrients.
For example, there's calcium in that milk.
It's fortified.
So the calcium is being absorbed in your body.
Unfortunately, when you have a problem with...
Lactose intolerance.
So when you pour the milk on top of it then, you get, ooh, see that, ooh, foaming and everything?
There's the gas.
Yeah, there's the gas we're talking about.
And guess what else happens?
The intestines can't absorb it, so they don't get the calcium in your body.
It all spills out without being used appropriately.
So you just don't seem to get the benefits you want.
But there's actually a reason.
And we actually talked about this.
You know, in a little sideways fashion, because you have changed, as does most of the audience.
Yes, absolutely.
When you're a kid, you've got tons of lactase, lots of lactase, so babies can digest a lot of milk and not have any problems.
Thank goodness, because they need that, Tina.
Makes sense.
So as we get into our middle years, we still have a little bit of this enzyme left in us.
Okay, it's still working.
It's still a happening thing.
But what happens is we get later in life, we get to a place.
Notice, by the way, we're a little bit more matronly looking here.
Hey!
No milk.
Yeah, what happened?
Yeah, what happened?
Exactly.
A lot of things happened, but this is one of them.
We don't have that enzyme inside of us.
So it causes an issue, and a lot of people just panic.
And they say, from now on, no more lactose.
No.
Are you in the next group?
No.
You still eat a little bit?
Yeah, a little bit.
I do less cheese and stuff, but yogurt I do occasionally.
You have a problem with the yogurt?
No, believe it or not.
Greek yogurt.
Sort of interesting, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Why would that be?
I think you're going to tell me.
I am going to tell you.
You're very wise to know that.
So Greek yogurt has probiotics in it.
And the probiotics that are naturally found in Greek yogurt allow you to tolerate the lactose.
It stimulates your own enzymes.
Remember the enzymes I showed you earlier?
It stimulates those enzymes.
Oh, so that's a good thing.
So that's a good thing.
Or you can even take probiotic supplements, frankly.
But it's better to do yogurt, right?
I think it's better to do yogurt.
Tastes better.
Tastes great.
But you've got to get real yogurt with real live culture in it.
Like the bacillin.
You want to have all that stuff making all the things you want.
So, if you take milk, And you pour it in this scenario.
You naturally digest it.
There's no issue.
Everyone's happy.
Looking good.
Now, there's some other sources.
One other source might be cheese.
Now, the question for you is, which cheese is better for you?
The hard cheeses or the soft cheeses?
Oh.
Like brie.
I'm sure it's probably these are better for you because I like those better.
Oh, like a swan spear.
So you go ahead and take that.
Show me what would happen if you have the soft cheeses.
Uh-oh.
You pour the milk in there, and oh!
Ooh!
A lot of gas.
Yeah, I guess it's not as good.
Not as good.
There's more lactose, actually, in the softer cheeses.
It's therefore harder for someone with lactose intolerance to tolerate.
It gets firmness, it makes the gas.
This, put it in the hard cheese.
The hard cheese is actually much better tolerated, especially hard-aged cheeses.
They're fantastic.
That's good.
Cheddar cheese, Swiss cheeses.
What was the last time you had Swiss cheese?
Two days ago.
And we tolerated it okay?
Yeah.
There you have it.
See?
You actually know.
So, from that one, everybody, I want you to get probiotic foods or hard cheeses.
Stay away from the soft cheeses.
Stay away from the milk itself.
And you can get away with a little bit of the lactose intolerance that so many of us are dealing with and still get some of the calcium that you need in your life.
Excellent.
Nicely done.
Nicely done.
Thank you so much.
We'll be right back.
Thank you.
Coming up, are you gaining and losing the same weight over and over?
Meet someone who shares your struggles.
Find out the reason why you yo-yo when you diet and the secrets to overcome the obstacles.
The end to your yo-yo dieting is coming up next.
Today, I want you to meet the self-proclaimed pear-shaped man.
I've watched him over the years go from 230 pounds down to 190 pounds, then back up to 230, over and over and over, gaining and losing the same 40 pounds for 15 years.
But now, at a healthy weight, he is here to share his secrets to end yo-yo dieting.
Please welcome my friend, Ted Spiker.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you.
He's a wonderful human being.
I've written a lot of things together, just have enjoyed it at every moment, and you're a very honest person, so thank you for helping out.
Thank you, Dr. Oz.
Very nice of you.
So, being pear-shaped, how did that contribute to your becoming a yo-yo dieter?
Well, I think not storing weight, where men typically do, in their bellies, really made me in tune to what a lot of women feel.
Frustration, angst, about body image, about weight issues.
I mean, it started very early.
I got a D in sixth grade gym class.
My college roommates called me Hoover because I ate so quickly.
It's terrible.
Mean.
It is mean.
I have trouble finding clothes, and I once had a doctor ask me if I got embarrassed on the beach because of my femininely shaped hips and chest.
Oh, that's tough.
That's tough.
But I've been in health and fitness for my career.
I write about it.
I report about it.
So I think I have this perspective where I have a personal perspective, but I also talk to experts, read the studies, and I think that that perspective helps me figure out That gap, that bridge between what we know and how we apply it to our own lives.
So give me the secret.
Why is it that people yo-yo diet?
Besides chocolate and cheese dip?
Yes.
I think it really comes down to two things.
One is we are afraid to fail.
And the second one is we get derailed when progress stops.
They're very powerful psychological elements.
If we have a little failure, we have a cheat on a dessert.
Forget it.
Diet's over.
I'm done.
Just eat the whole refrigerator.
We throw in the towel.
It must not be working.
So we just go back to our old habits until the cycle goes over and over again.
So here's a plan to everybody.
You're all going to get some help.
Overcoming yo-yo dieting.
I know that as a doctor, and I take great pride in this, I know a lot about the science of what gets people to put weight on.
But oftentimes, it's the anecdotal, personal, real stories of what gets it to work and what does it to not work that we need to share with you.
So I'm trusting my audience with you.
Okay?
Okay.
Alright, so Cherie's up first.
Cherie, I thank you again.
Cherie, I'm told you gained and have lost, and then gained again, 30 pounds?
Yes.
Over the past five years, it's been a rollercoaster ride.
And my whole thing is I step on the scale a whole lot.
So if I see I've lost a couple pounds, I tend to get excited.
I say, hey, I can have that extra french fry.
But then if I've gained, I get really, really disappointed.
So how often should I be stepping on the scale?
I think one of my biggest strategies is to surrender the scale.
There are some positive things about weighing yourself.
If you step on the scale and you see a number you don't like, it may inspire you to change and you're fired up and you're motivated.
But what happens when we are working really well, we think we've been eating really well, we step on the scale and we think we would have lost 12 pounds when we gained a pound.
We're like, lasagna.
Anybody got lasagna?
Let's go.
Right now.
So what we have to do is we have to take the same principle of weighing ourselves and turn it into data that we can use.
Two ways.
The first way is taking objective data that you control.
Don't rely on pounds, which fluctuates and we have no control over.
So you can do that in a number of ways.
You can track how much water you're going to drink every day.
You can track the number of steps you take.
You can say, I'm going to do 100 body weight squats every day.
Track that data.
And along the way, the effect will be that you'll lose the weight.
But you want to track data that you can control.
And the second piece of data that I think is really important that gets overlooked is subjective data.
So if you feel really good about how you're eating, how you're exercising, and the scale doesn't reflect that, forget it.
The subjective data should have as much weight, I guess, shall we say, as the objective data.
And if you can balance those two things, then you've got sustained motivation.
Thank you, Ted.
I hear these battles all the time.
That's a beautiful idea.
Things you can control.
All right, Margaret, you're up next.
Now, Margaret, again, I've gotten permission to share these stories.
Margaret says that she has gained and lost the same 50 pounds over the last five years.
Five years.
My problem is that I work for a church, and I work with some wonderful, wonderful ladies who bake some wonderful, wonderful goodies.
And they're constantly coming in and fathers always bringing something in.
So what do I do to keep those sabotages from hitting my salad in my lunchbox that I brought with me?
Co-worker sabotage.
I'm with you on that.
It's like, you know, red velvet cupcakes, you know, come hither, come hither.
Next thing you know, three are down, you're licking your fingers, and you're like, what happened?
What happened?
You know, so what I like to use is the if-then statement.
It's a method that has been really well researched by a New York University researcher, and it basically is a way to allow us to deal with temptations.
So the way it works is this, is you take your weak spot and you create an if-then statement to deal with it.
So my weak spot is Mexican food.
Love it.
Once got a nosebleed from eating 12 tacos in a row.
It's my weakness.
But now, what I say is, if we're going out for Mexican food, if we're going out for Mexican food, then I order a grilled chicken salad with salsa.
I can dabble in a couple chips, maybe an order of a taco, but I don't let the whole bean burrito cheesy craziness go on.
And it just becomes automatic at that point.
So for cupcakes, baked goods, you say, here's my plan.
I'm going to allow myself one cupcake every two weeks.
Is that fair?
You know?
Okay, one cupcake every two weeks, or whatever you decide.
The baked goods come five days a week.
Then I'm going to drink 16 ounces of water, have an apple, a handful of nuts, sing happy birthday to whoever's birthday it is and walk away.
And then after a few times, that's just what you do.
It comes to habit.
You're not letting your emotions make the decisions.
You're letting your strategy make the decisions.
Hope that's helpful.
Thank you.
And Melissa, let's hear from you.
Melissa's story, I don't know actually.
I've actually been yo-yoing with the same 20 pounds for the last two years.
I'm an avid late night snacker and I tend to overeat.
How do I restrict myself from overeating and late night snacking?
That's a great question, because that really is the danger zone for a lot of us.
Sit on the couch, favorite reality show, just eat and eat and eat, right?
That's what we like.
And I do it all the time.
I'm a fan of big portions, you know?
But I think what we want to do is the Cracker Jack approach, which is we want to find a treat inside the box of what we're eating.
So one of the things that I like to do is take a bowl of berries, and inside the bowl of berries there are a few treats.
So a few chocolate chips.
I didn't know.
I thought it was just decoration, yeah.
Yeah.
That is diabolically clever.
So you put a few treats in there, and it allows you to have a little bit more volume with a healthy food, but you get some of that satisfaction that we're craving.
And one thing I like to do with this is mix frozen with fresh, because frozen really slows you down.
It makes it feel a little bit more like a dessert, a little bit more like a treat, but it slows it down.
You want something at night that slows you down, because one chip Wait, the reality show is 10 seconds is over.
I need something to last me the whole time.
So you want something that lasts a long time, and those kinds of things will help you do it.
Hope that's helpful.
It's been a great day of my life working with you.
Thanks for having me.
Thanks for that new book.
It's fantastic.
It's called Downsized.
Got tons of other secrets to end yo-yo dieting for good.
Get lots more information about it on DrOz.com, and I'll be right back.
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Are you ready to transform you, Darcy?
Darcella's here.
She's ready.
And celebrity trainer David Buer is here to show how one simple move of the day can jumpstart your exercise routine and transform you.
So, what's the move of the day, David?
The squat row.
You ready?
Sounds intimidating.
Oh, it's a lot of fun.
You ready, Darcella?
I'm ready.
All right.
We're going to start with our feet, shoulder width apart.
We're going to lower ourselves down into a squat position, briefly pausing at the bottom before coming up, pulling our arms back, and squeezing our shoulder blades back together nice and tight.
Darcella, what's going on with the arms, Darcella?
Come on now.
Come on, Darcella.
Come on, ready?
We're transforming you, Darcella.
Let's do it.
All right, one more time?
You ready, Doc?
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Reach out into that squat, briefly pausing, then coming up, pulling our arms back and squeezing those shoulder blades back together.
You feel it?
Darcella, you feel it?
Oh, I feel it.
Let's do it.
Come on.
Yes.
She doesn't seem so happy to me.
So what muscles are we building with this?
We're strengthening the muscles along our backside, including our core.
Those muscles are responsible for improving our posture, and there are large muscle groups.
So what that does is it allows us to burn more calories in less time, making it more effective.
And the best part is you can do it while watching the Dr. Oz show.
Oh, I like that, Darcella.
I like that.
How many reps do we do?
I'd like you to do two sets of 15 reps three times per week.
That's doable.
Listen, you guys keep going.
I'm gonna talk about this a little bit.
All right, let's go, Darcella.
The squat row is just one of the moves that helps you take a small step forward towards the better health you all want.
It's part of a free fitness program called Transform U featuring this guy over here, David Buer.
To start transforming, you can go to DrOz.com.
Come on, guys, y'all.
Put your back into it.
All right, now it's time for in case you missed it.
First, the scary secret your supermarket is hiding.
Beware of colored lightings, like this.
Produce can be set up under a green light, just like this, and guess what?
You take away the green light, watch the produce, and it looks like that.
Completely blanched.
And red lights, oh, you've got meat that you can't tell which is older, which is younger, and fresher, because with the red light it looks like this, without it, You can tell this is actually old, and that was the fresh stuff.
Now, if you see these kinds of lights, take the product that you want by taking it away from the lights and looking at it and making sure that it actually looks as good.
Inspect it under the white light.
That's the actual honest way of doing it.
And remember, never buy the meat at the bottom.
It may be protected from the light, but it's been there the longest.
When you walk into a supermarket, you're going to look up, see the lights, then look down and see the food.
We're all clear on that?
Yeah.
I love it.
All right.
I want to close with a warning.
Please be careful about what you buy online, especially weight loss pills.
There's some dubious people online that prey on folks like you who are trying to do the right thing for your health.
Sometimes they even try to make it seem like I endorse their products.
I don't.
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